Cross-Genre Conversations, Roden & Borges

In this project students were introduced to the work of artist Steve Roden and writer Jorge Luis Borges and asked to look for ways the artifacts Roden & Borges have made (art work and short stories, respectively) suggested similarities in theme or practice. The visual art students were then asked to create work that responded to or was inspired by or embody something about Borges's fiction, and the writing students were asked to do likewise in response to Roden. Here are a few examples:

Krystyny Vandernberg (you really needed to be there for this one):

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Hannah Brown:

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 Annika Tuttle:

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Jenna Schmidt:

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Hope Daley:

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Jessica Dueker:

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 Robert Brown:

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Megan Van Vlear:

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Michael Hallman:

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Jill White:

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 Melanie Kim:

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Jesse Fowler (made the following poem, then used a system to turn its letters into musical notation):

       The sun shines like a
       Golden key in the sky that
       Unlocks each of man's days.

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 Katie Tuttle:

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Megan Brady: